Ubuntu
xdm package

xdm package is missing libXdmGreet.so

Bug #2461 reported by Ethan Blanton
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xdm (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Daniel Stone
Breezy
Invalid
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

The xdm package on Ubuntu Breezy (prerelease, as of 2005.09.20) appears
to be missing /usr/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so, and as such cannot
display the greeter (or log in a user). xdm -debug 1 -nodaemon reports:

xdm error (pid 9566): /usr/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory while loading
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so

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Ethan Blanton (eblanton) wrote :

(Sorry, that's xdm 0.99.1-3)

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Ethan Blanton (eblanton) wrote :

Upon further examination, defining GREET_USER_STATIC fixes this issue. (I added -DGREET_USER_STATIC to CFLAGS in debian/rules; this is not a good permanent solution, as xdm is simply useless without it.

In addition to this fix, DEF_XDM_CONFIG must be defined to reflect that the xdm config file is now located at /usr/X11/etc/xdm/xdm-config.

Without these changes, xdm will not allow login. If the priority of this bug should be raised to reflect this, please do so.

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Ethan Blanton (eblanton) wrote :

The above path for DEF_XDM_CONFIG should be /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config; looks like I'm 0 for 2 for avoiding corrections.

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in xdm:
assignee: nobody → daniels
Daniel Stone (daniels)
Changed in xdm:
status: New → Fixed
Daniel Holbach (dholbach)
Changed in xdm:
assignee: nobody → daniels
Daniel Stone (daniels)
Changed in xdm:
assignee: daniels → nobody
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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote :

Other task says fixed

Changed in xdm:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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